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  • Great Walks

    TRAILS & TONGUE-TWISTERS

    Jan 30, 2019 6 minutes
    WORDS AND PHOTOS_ IAN TREVASKIS

    THE national flag features a dragon, the natives breakfast on seaweed and cockles and speak an unintelligible language, and their ancient tales are the basis of Arthurian legends. Despite these oddities, a visit to Wales is sure to fill you with a sense of wonder and magic. This is especially true if you take a hike around ‘Ynys Mon’, the Isle of Anglesey.

    During our 220km hike we experienced wide tidal estuaries, beautiful sandy bays, isolated coves, tiny villages, green fields and peaceful woods, weather-beaten cliff tops and extensive sand dune systems. Interspersed with these were hedgerows laden with succulent blackberries, long stretches of boardwalks conveniently placed to carry us dry-footed over marshes and estuaries and sweeping sandy beaches begging us to unlace our boots and dip our feet.

    “AT DAWN ON MIDSUMMER SOLSTICE, SHAFTS OF SUNLIGHT PENETRATE THE PASSAGEWAY AND LIGHT THE INNER BURIAL CHAMBER.”

    Ambling and rambling

    After a quick visit to Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch (try saying that in one breath!) we set off on

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